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Poster: | GnarlyC | Date: | Aug 31, 2004 9:12am |
Forum: | election_2004 | Subject: | Re: Socialism for America |
Sorry, but this is a bunch of bunk. The largest part of the workforce in the USA is created by small business. There are millions of businesses run out of people's homes. You make it sound like there are just a few people who employ everyone else. That is not true. The US is a place where if you work hard and smart, you will get ahead. Socialism creates a group of people who 'need' the rest of society in order to survive. That's what our current welfare/food stamps/AFDC system has already started to create. It is just human nature for some people to take the easy way out. What the rest of us need to do is to encourage them to work and learn and bettter themselves, not depend on everyone else for their survival.
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Poster: | mbrlr | Date: | Oct 30, 2004 4:18pm |
Forum: | election_2004 | Subject: | Re: Socialism for America |
Your remarks re welfare/food stamps/AFDC are troublesome. These are steps we've taken to help these folks survive and overcome the problems they have so that they might contribute to society, and those programs have worked well despite being drastically underfunded. Further underfunding or simply cutting those programs off is just penny-wise and pound-foolish --- cutting off our nose to spite o...well, actually just done to make us feel superior to poor folks.
Underlying almost all modern conservative philosophy are two things: pride and selfishness. The Democratic Party's candidates haven't quite known how to address that because the pride and the selfishness have been so unbelievably out there and so "not what we were taught in civics" that they've just been flummoxed by it. Kerry finally started taking off in this campaign when he began taking on the President on the war and also when he began sounding like an honest-to-God Democrat and not a pale imitation of a Republican. It's good to have some semblance of the real Democratic Party back.
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Poster: | Raven Petersen | Date: | Jul 5, 2005 5:50pm |
Forum: | election_2004 | Subject: | Re: Socialism for America |